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Una historia real sobre la Revolución cubana contada por el más joven de los 82 expedicionarios del Granma. El Comandante Arsenio García Dávila, con veinte años de edad, se embarcó con 81 rebeldes para derrocar la dictadura militar. Las dificultades que atraviesan, sus triunfos y avances tienen cabida en esta nueva interpretación de la Revolución. Junto a personajes tan carismáticos como Fidel Castro, su hermano Raúl, el Che Guevara o Camilo Cienfuegos, Arsenio estuvo presente en cada uno de los episodios del histórico momento, desde los prolegómenos hasta el triunfo final en...

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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...